The John Phillips Family

Author : Azel Ames
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ISBN 13 : 9781332126866
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Family and Vicissitudes of John Phillips, Senior of Duxbury and Marshfield written by Azel Ames and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Family and Vicissitudes of John Phillips, Senior of Duxbury and Marshfield: A Vexatious in the Genealogy of an Old Colony Progenitor Disentangled It is probably safe to say that none among the many confused and perplexing genealogies of the early "Old Colony" families, has more bewildered and misled able and well-known antiquarians than that of John Phillips of Marshfield. Owing to the tragic event - in that day especially dread and impressive - which twice befell it, this family received mention at the hands of nearly all the early chroniclers of New England, and nearly all have singularly confused both its individuals and the events affecting them. Mather, Morton, Josselyn, Hull, Hubbard, Prince, Alden, Savage, Farmer, Deane, Winsor, Mitchell, Davis, Marcia Thomas, Goodwin and lastly, Shurtleff, have all recorded, with more or less of circumstance, the calamities which overtook Mr. Phillips - as was then believed by the priestly scribes, as "a special visitation of God" - and nearly every one has made one or more radical errors as to these vicissitudes and those affected by them. The author of this little sketch has himself - as have others of his family - more than once, made efforts to disentangle the snarled thread of this ancestral genealogy and its related events, only "to give it up" in despair, as something which the Fates and each chronicler had conspired to make more knotted and involved. It is pleasant to state, however, that a recent persistent effort, with all available data in hand, has effected the long desired result and this is given in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.